Act I
The way Macbeth kill's the kings enemy.
What is cutting him open from the navel to the jaw?
Macbeth's emotional state immediately after killing Duncan.
What is distraught?
The symbolic effect Shakespeare achieves by having Banquo's ghost sit in Macbeth's chair.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The three prophecies of the witches.
What is . . .
1. "Beware Macduff"?
2. No one born of woman can harm Macbeth.
3. He won't be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to his castle on Dunsinane Hill.
The "brief candle" is a metaphor for this.
What is life?
Who is Satan?
The subject of "On My First Daughter" died at this age.
King Duncan's announcement that disturbs Macbeth.
What is: Malcolm will be the future king?
This person seems most genuinely troubled by the death of Duncan.
Who is Macduff?
The main reason Macbeth wishes to be rid of Banquo.
What is his descendants will be kings?
The last image the witches show Macbeth.
What is the Ghost of Banquo?
According to evidence, Lady Macbeth died this way.
What is by her own hand (suicide)?
The poem that talks about Milton's contentment with not having accomplished what his peers have.
"On My First Son" is an elegiac poem written for Jonson's son who died when he was this age.
Lady Macbeth decides to convince her husband to kill Duncan when she is doing this.
What is reading her husband's letter?
The reason Duncan's sons are suspected of his murder.
What is they fled Inverness Castle (or the country?)?
Lady M's explanation for her husband's behavior when he sees Banquo's ghost.
The reason Lady Macduff calls her husband a traitor.
What is: She feels he's abandoned his family?
In addition to ambition, this trait constitutes Macbeth's tragic flaw.
What is blind trust in the witches' prophecies?
What is "On His Blindness"?
Who did Ben Jonson write a tribute to?
Who is William Shakespeare?
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill Duncan by telling him this.
What is: telling him a man if he doesn't do it?
The three stages of Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan.
What is:
1. Drug the guards
2. Kill Duncan
3. Frame the guards
Lady M. says it's better to be dead than to live in this.
What is discontent?
The way Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty.
What is: He says he has more vices than Macbeth?
Lady M.'s tragic flaw.
What is her ambition?
When Milton talks about the "fiery deluge" and the "everburning sulphur" he is using this literary device.
What is imagery?
"When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm / our ears, or like a Mercury to charm" is this literary device.
After greeting him as Thane of Glamis, the witches make these two prophecies.
What is:
1. He will become Thane of Cawdor?
2. He will become king?
The item Macbeth imagines he sees right before killing Duncan.
What is a dagger?
Hecate's explanation for Macbeth's approaching downfall.
What is overconfidence?
What is his desire to kill Macbeth?
After killing Macbeth, Macduff does this.
What is: cuts off Macbeth's head?
Milton was considered the best author of this time period.
What is the Puritan Age?
What is a wreath of roses?